Blink 182

Angels & Airwaves Release New Song, ‘Tunnels’: Listen

Angels & Airwaves, the side-project of blink-182 co-founder Tom DeLonge, is about to release their fifth album on December 9, titled The Dream Walker. The group released a new song from the album, titled “Tunnels,” and DeLonge gave a little interview to Billboard.

“I think we found the house we’re going to start recording the next record in,” DeLonge said of Blink’s follow-up to 2011’s Neighborhoods. “That’s a big deal, finding location, for us. That’s usually the biggest obstacle, finding a place everyone can get to.”

DeLonge goes on to reveal “I think the goal on this record is to really craft it together form scratch as much as we can, but it’ll be a good mix of things that are partially planned out and a lot of stuff we just really dig in and create from scratch, with everyone’s influence. Our best records were made that way.”

This Day in Music History — September 19

1960 : Chubby Checker’s version of “The Twist” goes to #1 while the original version by Hank Ballard & The Midnighters reaches its peak chart position of #28. Checker’s version of the song would top the charts again in 1962.

2003 : A week after his death at the age of 71, country legend Johnny Cash is bestowed with artist, song and album of the year awards at the Americana Music Awards ceremony in Nashville. Cash wins song of the year for his cover of Nine Inch Nails’ Hurt and album of the Year for American IV: The Man Comes Around, the fourth in a series produced by Rick Rubin.

2003 : No one is injured when a chartered plane carrying Dixie Chicks clips a building at Glasgow Airport. The group is en route from Dublin for a concert at Glasgow’s Exhibition and Conference Center. The show goes on as planned.

2008 : Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and DJ AM are seriously injured in a jet crash that killed four people. The plane hurtled off the end of a runway in South Carolina when a tire blew, engulfing the plane in flames. DJ AM died of an accidental drug overdose less than a year later.